VATICAN CITY (AP) — VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect ...

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the conclave to elect the next pope after the death of Pope Francis.

As cardinals meet in Rome ahead of a conclave to elect the next pope, a Peruvian cardinal accused of sexual abuse and whose ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The 135 cardinals eligible to elect the next pope will enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave ...

"The Slum Pope has died. Long live the pope of the poor, the marginalised, the disenfranchised," the world cried. Now that ...

Catholic cardinals agreed on Monday to begin a conclave on May 7 to elect a new pope, and highlighted clerical sexual abuse as one of the key challenges facing Pope Francis's successor. So-called ...

By Philip Pullella, Joshua McElwee and Crispian Balmer VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Roman Catholic cardinals will begin their ...

The Vatican has announced that the conclave to elect the next pope will start on 7 May inside the Sistine Chapel. Around 135 ...

A theme of early meetings is the tension between diversity and unity, which have become shorthand for cardinals to signal ...